Why Does This bother Me So Much?

[dogriver]

I don't understand why this bothers me so very, very much, but it does. I'm seeing, particularly among blind people, a total and utter disregard for the word "an". People just right "a", even if the next sound afterwards is a vowel sound. Every time I read it, it makes me want to yell!

Comments

[pawpower4me.livejournal.com]

there are some words which are hard to classify though such as herbalist where some people say the H and some people say "erbalist"
so if I write an herbalist
or a herbalist
people are going to read it wrong either way.

Oh dear, whatever shall I do!

*rings my herbalist hands*
In my next life, I am coming back as a truck driver; you say "a truck driver" as a matter of course.
I'm so confused now and am just going to start calling myself "thee herbalist"
or maybe "thee artist formerly known as thee herbalist"

now look what you've gone and done!

[arinoch.livejournal.com]

whatever it is you call yourself and however it is you say it, you've officially been doing it way too much. Damn but that's a confusing comment.

[shazza59.livejournal.com]

Herbalist and all relations to herb is a hard one. I tend to say herb with a silent h, so it would be an herbalist for me. But in this case, it's a matter of pronunciation. where it gets sticky are words like historian or hotel. To me it's a hotel and a historical event since the h in these words is said. For honor,, honest and herb, it would be "an" because the h in these words are not spoken. I've never ever read herb or heard it spoken with the h, so you are an herbalist. I am an honest woman who is trying to deal with a historical language destrruction in a house of an honorable family. *grin*

[pawpower4me.livejournal.com]

but you see, dear Shazza,
I received my herbalist training from a school in the UK where the "h" in "herbalist" is most certainly said.

I say herb with the "H"
I use the UK speech in jaws (when I use windows) and it says the "h" in "herbalist" too.

Does the American version of Jfw say "erbalist?

[shazza59.livejournal.com]

My American accented JFW says herb without the h, but oddly, it says herbalist with the h. Now is that weird or what?